Embed (thing)

By default many of the programs used for authoring TrueType fonts set the "allow embedding" bits to false. Because this is an obscure setting it is often overlooked and thus many fonts that were not intended to be restricted have been released with it set. Embed flips these bits so that software which actually pays attention to them (such as AdobeDistiller) will play nice.

See Cracking TrueType Fonts or the official embed site (http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/~twm/embed/) for more information.

This is the source code for the embed utility. The author claims that this requires a 32 bitWindows or a DOS extender (cwsdpmi.exe) to run, but my theory is that it will work flawlessly under WINE or any DOS emulator that supports extenders.